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This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. ...

If you don’t know The Congo Story Project yet, it is a reporting and public awareness campaign co-produced by the Voice of America and the media platform, Citizen Global, that uses crowdsourcing and co-creation techniques to raise awareness about gender-based violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. About the project: The goal of the Congo Story Project is to create networks of informed individuals who are actively involved in engaging ...

Jules Hoffmann and Bruce Beutler jointly won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine with cell biologist Ralph Steinmann. Hoffmann is a French citizen native of Luxembourg, CNRS senior researcher emeritus and professor at the university of Strasbourg. The CNRS press release: Jules Hoffmann has dedicated his works to the study of genetic and molecular mechanisms responsible for innate immunity in insects. His numerous findings have provided new insights into the ...

This Avocado and Crab Soup is more of a summer dinner party but now Autumn has come over here, we wanted to give it a try. The recipe comes from Epicurious and when we said we gave it a try, we actually made the soup. And it was delicious! Preparation: Mix crabmeat, celery, chervil and lemon zest in a bowl. Cover and chill crab salad. Halve and pit avocados; scoop flesh into a blender. Add vegetable stock, crème fraîche, lime juice, kosher salt, and 1 ...

Do you remember the lampwork beads by Sherry Bellamy? We posted about the Canadian artist’s amazing work last year; now we want to introduce you to one of Thailand’s few internationally recognized woman artists: Pinaree Sanpitak. Sanpitak is one of Thailand’s most internationally recognized artists and she collaborated with Venitian glass-blower Silvano Signoretto to produce ‘breast-cloud sculptures that are both solid yet ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. ...

We like Pete Fowler very much: his work, his music and also following him on Twitter @themonsterist. We will soon unveil a ‘present’ he gave us and we are sure you will enjoy it too; until then, if you are lucky to live in London, don’t miss his show tonight. It is the official opening of the Silas store with Pete Fowler’s recent paintings on paper of the Cornish coastline seen through a cartoon lens adorning the walls of the ...

Fashion designers, models, celebrities… Many people are currently in Paris for the Fashion Week running from September 27 to October 5. But behind closed doors, the joy may not last for long due to bad economic news, according to some specialists. On Reuters we read: ‘Paris Fashion Week kicked off on Tuesday under a cloud of economic pessimism mixed with uncertainty about the creative direction of some of the world’s biggest fashion ...

It is a very sad news we read yesterday:  Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, has died of cancer at the age of 71. The New York Times writes about her: Dr. Maathai, one of the most widely respected women on the continent, played many roles — environmentalist, feminist, politician, professor, rabble-rouser, human rights advocate and head of the Green Belt Movement, which she ...

Art in South America with Argentine artist Maria Parmo. She was born in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1959  and her art is clearly inspired by her studies in math which had a direct influence on her creations. Paintings, collages, drawings, and objects; Parmo draws and paints with an  identifiable style: symmetry, asymmetry, tubes and lines, abstract art in black and white or in color… We like the fact she expresses her talent in many mediums and ...